A Sorrowful Fate: Two Poems by Maryam Gatawa

A SORROWFUL FATE

I’ll submit my pains in ships
To sail back into time
To the one who owns blue canopy

I’ll mail my tears on kites
Through Seven Skies above the Seven Seas
To the omnipresent one

See, the oceans have turned red
The land sprouts black plants
Watered by the blood of men
Feasted alive by the seizure of breath
Then I saw corpses crying in death

I swear by the Owner of Ants
Humanity has lost its face
Blood against blood
Dancing in black seas
Raining reds
The organ in my chest keeps pounding hard
Translated by streams that leaked through my lens,
by the one who owns the heart of the dead

Terror sees no sun
Where peace is not the balm
To this sorrowful fate
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